Now that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is on record that it told NBC News not to use the high capacity magazine in its segment with Wayne LaPierre, the big media is paying attention and taking this seriously.

TMZ is running interference claiming that NBC News was told by ATF that the D.C. Police said it was okay, but the D.C. Police say they were asked directly by NBC News for permission and that permission was denied.

In Washington, people who are caught in possession of the type of magazine that Mr. Gregory had can face up to a year in prison, said David Benowitz, a criminal defense lawyer.

“You would be arrested; you would most likely be charged with possession of an illegal magazine,” Mr. Benowitz said, adding that “depending on what time you were arrested, you would most likely be held overnight.”

Prosecutors and defense lawyers often work out a plea agreement in which defendants receive probation and have a misdemeanor charge on their criminal record, Mr. Benowitz said. If defendants have a prior criminal record or lose a jury trial, they could face a stiffer sentence.

Mr. Benowitz said the accusation from the police that NBC had asked for permission and then went ahead with showing the magazine “didn’t help Gregory’s case.”

Yeah, asking for permission is pretty damning when you ignore what you are told directly from the law enforcement authority and do it anyway.

We have so many serious issues of violence in this country — and even here in DC on our dangerous streets — that it is bizarre to me that anyone would spend (waste) 5 minutes investigating NBC’s David Gregory for this.

One of the problems with the ever expanding gun laws advocated by Gregory and others is that otherwise law-abiding citizens get caught up inadvertently violating the law, like this soldier on leave from Afghanistan, while criminals do what they please and powerful people don’t get prosecuted.

The guns laws, as presently constituted and as proposed, turn us into a nation of men not of laws.

What Greta doesn’t understand is that David Gregory isn’t being investigated because he’s David Gregory; if he were anyone else, he’d already be in jail.

David Gregory brandished a Liberally-Declared “Deadly Weapon Of Mass Destruction” at a guest on air, to wit: a 30 round AR-15 magazine.

If David Gregory is not prosecuted, anyone found in possession of such a device within DC Metro Police jurisdiction could claim prosecution immunity presidence by reason of David Gregory, otherwise known as the ‘David Gregory Defense.’

No doubt, the DC Metro Police lawyers are now on the horns of a political dilemma over that.

If not David Gregory, then whom? If not now, then when?

Next thing you know both David Gregory and his NBC accomplices and the brass running the DC Metro Police will have a White House Petition circulating to have them all deported along with that anti-constitution foreign national persona non grata, Piers Morgan.

Greta? Do you have illegal items in your possession by reason of the David Gregory Defense?

It doesn’t matter what the ATF said. States (and the District of Columbia) are allowed to pass gun laws that are more restrictive than the federal laws. Unless that changes, DC is the final word on their own firearms laws.

Why Thank-you Sanddog!
On with the Prosecution!
Possibly this would serve to demonstrate the effectiveness of gun laws? Or their relevance?
I would never consider David to be any sort of threat…physically.. no, his threat comes from a distorted reality and a skewed ideology. He can have as many firearms as he wants, so far as I am concerned.
But then he had to go break the law.

3 Did either party memorialize in writing, to the other, the(supposed) conversation?

Of course it would be surprising if you got a response. Wonderful that all your pressing on this apparently forced a TMZ.com “Plan B” defense strategy. Was TMZ.com the most credible organization they could find to carry their water?

As Government expands, it seems that we’re going to be defined as either “ruling class” or “subjects”. Mr. Gregory appears to assume that he’s already a member of the privileged “ruling class”. I’d like to think that this will be an illustration of all citizens being equal before the law but I’m afraid we’ve already seen too much evidence that “some…are more equal than others.”

Here’s a well-known and relatively recent case of a citizen trying to obey the gun laws only to find herself handcuffed.

It’s all about intent: “Oh, but Your Honor–that magazine was intended to demonize and ridicule private gun ownership!” The so-called “hate crime” is similar in which murder is murder except if you’re a member of one not-so-protected group who kills a member of a protected group…then your intent is assumed to be hateful and the penalty is more severe. D.G. will likely be forgiven because his heart is in the politically correct orientation.

“David Gregory thinks that he is protected by privilege – which, as Robert Anton Wilson once reminded us, literally means ‘private law.’ The DC law is absurd and inequitable; it should be repealed. But if it is not going to be repealed then it absolutely must be enforced equitably.”

Yeah, asking for permission is pretty damning when you ignore what you are told directly from the law enforcement authority and do it anyway.

True enough, but I still want to know how that “illegal” magazine came into Mr. Gregory’s possession … and I seriously doubt that he himself went across the river and purchased it at some suburban Virginia gunshop.

Somebody at NBC’s Washington offices illegally transported that item into the District and I’d like to know who that person is.

Many folks have conveniently forgotten Carl Rowan. He was a Black columnist for the Washington Post, who was virulently anti-gun. Then he shot, and wounded, a white teen age boy who was trespassing by swimming in Rowan’s pool. The gun he used was unregistered and thus illegal gun in DC. The gun had supposedly been given to Rowan by his FBI agent son. Rowan did stand trial, but the jury was hung–surprise, surprise–and he was never re-tried.

The Hypocrite continued to rant against guns. But, he proclaimed that he had the right to protect his property and his family.

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it. . . There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”

Isn’t it ironic that Mr. Gregory could have brought a gallon Ziploc bag full of 5.56mm rounds and that would have been no problem, but some stamped sheet metal formed in the shape of a box with a spring inside causes so much hubbub?

No, that’s incorrect;
people have been prosecuted in DC for being in possession of ammunition for weapons that are not registered to them.
So, unless Mr. Gregory has a registered single-shot, or bolt-action rifle chambered in .223/5.56NATO, that ziploc bag full of ammo in that caliber would be a violation, for which he could be detained until arraignment.